The Number One Mistake Everybody Makes on Twitter
There is a feature on Twitter that has been misunderstood since the day it was introduced.
Now if you're "oldschool Twitter" like I am, you'll remember that when the service launched, the "@" signal didn't have any explicit function. What happened is that users would organically use it to mention other users in their stream (my nerdy coworkers tell me this stemmed from a chat service called IRC).
Eventually, Twitter took that user behavior and actually incorporated it into the functionality of the platform, and from that day forward, people have been making the same stupid mistake.
What's the mistake, you ask? Take a look at the deck I made. It'll only take a couple seconds, and I think you'll get a few laughs in addition to the straight up educational value:
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9yThanks for the impt update!
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9yIt was so entertaining I didn't notice it was 44 slides ;)
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10yGary Vaynerchuk - Thanks for supplying the virtual "Jaws of Life" to help me extract my head from my colon. I had no idea Twitter was working that way... and now I do. I feel like an idiot... but now an informed one. Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday at the Cadre Main Event! http://cadredc.com/MainEvent
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10yGood to remember!
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10yChris, thank you for your reply. I'm still learning about Twitter. I've noticed how some people use dot in front of the "@", but since I saw all replies, I never understood why. So, when you say in "my stream" - do you mean the stream that goes under twitter.com/MyName ? or something else? Anyway, I used this tip for the first time just now.